A new week and a new project! This quilt is everything that I love about fabric and patchwork. I love a scrappy quilt and working from stash ... I love working with contrasting - light/dark - fabrics especially playing with low volume fabrics ... and I love a simple patchwork design. I also enjoy a challenge and working with inset seams does exactly that.
One-Patch Quilts (Twenty to Make)
This little book - One-Patch Quilts (Twenty to Make) by Carolyn Forster - caught my eye at the Melbourne Quilt Convention in April. At the time I was working on my Scrappy Apple Core Quilt and the image of the Apple Core Quilt on the cover of the book made me stop and flick through the pages of the book. In doing so I spotted a project with the cutest rows of houses and knew I needed to add it to my list of quilts to make. And so this book came home with me. It is only a little book, but it is a gem for inspiration!
A one-patch quilt is a quilt made from a single repeating shape and featured in the book is inspiration for 20 such projects - each a different patch - in order of difficulty, starting with a square and ending with an apple core shape. Further shapes included are half rectangle triangles, diamonds, kites, half and whole hexagons, jewel, and apple core shapes. The instructions are basic however if you are a sewer with some quilt making experience, and better still experience with inset seams, this is the a great book for ideas and inspiration.
On each project page there is a template for the basic shape at actual size. Rather than photocopy the shape and use a paper template to cut my fabric pieces, I resized my "house" shape so that I could quickly and easily cut a rectangular fabric piece with rotary cutter and ruler, then lob off the corners with a 90 degree angle ruler. I then also marked a ¼" seam line with a pencil around the shape to assist with sewing the inset seams that join the "rooftops" of the shapes together. A time consuming task but worth it for the sake of accuracy.
This quilt with it's many inset seams is not as difficult to sew together as it may look. It does involve a lot of stop/start sewing but you're still only sewing a straight line, and starting and stopping at a marked spot. Furthermore with this quilt design you are only ever working with two horizontal rows at a time when sewing the inset seams (rather than wrangling the whole quilt top under the machine). Once the "rooftop" rows are sewn together (a light row of houses + a dark row of houses), the remainder seams are all long straight seams.
More soon,
Rita
RELEVANT LINKS:
Book reference: One-Patch Quilts (Twenty to Make) by Carolyn Forster
More RPQ One-Patch Quilts
More RPQ Quilts with Inset Seams
RPQ TUTORIALS with Inset Seams:
Machine Piecing a Hexagon Quilt
Kansas Dugout Quilt Block Tutorial
Spool Block and Nine Patch Block Tutorial
A one-patch quilt is a quilt made from a single repeating shape and featured in the book is inspiration for 20 such projects - each a different patch - in order of difficulty, starting with a square and ending with an apple core shape. Further shapes included are half rectangle triangles, diamonds, kites, half and whole hexagons, jewel, and apple core shapes. The instructions are basic however if you are a sewer with some quilt making experience, and better still experience with inset seams, this is the a great book for ideas and inspiration.
On each project page there is a template for the basic shape at actual size. Rather than photocopy the shape and use a paper template to cut my fabric pieces, I resized my "house" shape so that I could quickly and easily cut a rectangular fabric piece with rotary cutter and ruler, then lob off the corners with a 90 degree angle ruler. I then also marked a ¼" seam line with a pencil around the shape to assist with sewing the inset seams that join the "rooftops" of the shapes together. A time consuming task but worth it for the sake of accuracy.
This quilt with it's many inset seams is not as difficult to sew together as it may look. It does involve a lot of stop/start sewing but you're still only sewing a straight line, and starting and stopping at a marked spot. Furthermore with this quilt design you are only ever working with two horizontal rows at a time when sewing the inset seams (rather than wrangling the whole quilt top under the machine). Once the "rooftop" rows are sewn together (a light row of houses + a dark row of houses), the remainder seams are all long straight seams.
QUILT DETAILS
One Patch Quilt - Row Houses
Quilt top measures 55 inches x 66 inches.
396 house pieces and 22 half-house pieces.
150+ different fabrics.
Machine pieced.
150+ different fabrics.
Machine pieced.
Quilt design from the book:
Now ready for basting and quilting ....
More soon,
Rita
RELEVANT LINKS:
Book reference: One-Patch Quilts (Twenty to Make) by Carolyn Forster
More RPQ One-Patch Quilts
More RPQ Quilts with Inset Seams
RPQ TUTORIALS with Inset Seams:
Machine Piecing a Hexagon Quilt
Kansas Dugout Quilt Block Tutorial
Spool Block and Nine Patch Block Tutorial
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That is really cute.
ReplyDeleteThis is the sort of pattern I love very much.
ReplyDeleteSimple, and, with the right fabrics (and you really used the right ones ),a very inspiring result.
I love all the fabrics. You did a great job on your inset seams!
ReplyDeleteThis is stunning. I do think the inset seams would drive me nuts though, maybe I am just lazy. x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful as always! Am curious - what is your organization system for your fabric? Your quilts always have such a huge variety. How do you keep it all straight? Perhaps others would like to know too!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful quilt! I love house quilts and this one is really unique. Also, I'm curious like Cathy B. Your quilts always use a great variety of fabrics and yet they are all so well balanced they can't be random. I would love to know your secret.
ReplyDeleteI would also like to know your secret is. You make the most stunning quilts and my favorite kind of quilts....scrappy. What is your organization technique for all the fabrics. It seems like scraps are always growing. The quantity never goes down. Have a blessed day. Camille Davies
ReplyDeleteThese house are adorable. It looks beautiful. Looking forward to seeing how you quilt it. Love it all so much I purchased the book for myself.
ReplyDeleteHow fun! You are a whiz with partial seams.
ReplyDeleteI love it! What a great way to use up all those white-background novelty fabrics in my stash. Thanks for sharing your awesome finished top with us!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great update on the 4" square one patch quilt. I see the Yuwa sheep in blue and lots of other "vintage" prints from your past Sunday selections. I love it.
ReplyDeleteThank you for letting us know about the book. I'm heading over to Amazon to buy a copy 😀
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